Installing

The app runs on Windows 10 or later and on Linux, on x64 and arm64 processors. It brings everything it needs; no .NET or other runtime has to be installed.

Apt install

On Debian and Ubuntu, x64 and arm64, install from the apt repository of Uniform Chat, which is kept in its releases on GitHub. Add the repository once, with the key its packages are signed with:

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://github.com/tagcode/Uniform.Chat/releases/latest/download/uniform-chat-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/uniform-chat.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/uniform-chat.gpg] https://github.com/tagcode/Uniform.Chat/releases/ latest/download/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/uniform-chat.list
sudo apt update

Then install the app, which also adds it to the application menu:

sudo apt install uniform-chat

Start it from the menu, or with the command uniform-chat. sudo apt upgrade updates it with the rest of the system. sudo apt remove uniform-chat removes it, but not your account and messages in ~/.local/share/uniform-chat-desktop.

Windows

Download uniform-chat-desktop-<version>-win-x64.zip (or win-arm64) from the releases and unpack it anywhere; the docs folder in it has this guide (open docs/index.html). Then run Uniform.Chat.exe. Windows may warn that the app is from an unknown publisher, because it is not signed yet; choose More info → Run anyway.

Other Linux systems

Download uniform-chat-desktop-<version>-linux-x64.tar.gz (or linux-arm64) from the releases, unpack it and run the app:

tar -xzf uniform-chat-desktop-*-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd uniform-chat-desktop-*-linux-x64
./Uniform.Chat

You can also start it by double-clicking Uniform.Chat in the file manager.

To add it to the application menu, run ./install-desktop-entry.sh in the same folder. Run it again if you move the folder, and ./install-desktop-entry.sh --uninstall removes the entry.

From source

With the .NET 10 SDK, from the repository root:

dotnet run --project src/Uniform.Chat.Desktop